Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1885 — A Dinner of Herbs. [ARTICLE]

A Dinner of Herbs.

“The red men are often vegetarians, even when they eat meat.” “I don’t see your drift exactly. ” “Well, stupid, doesn’t the hump of a bison often make an Indian meal ?” — Boston Budget. An exchange remarks that “poets as a rule do not die of old age.” We have remarked that poets as a rule do not die at all. They simply get discouraged and peter out unobserved, nobody knows how or where. Horace Greeley used to say that the way to resume was to go right at it and get there, without any ifs or ands about it. Getting home in a crowded streetcar has to be done pretty much in the same way.